I watched the video, presented by a pretentious narrator. Once again, ignorance reigns supreme. The camera that took the images from space did not have enough dynamic range to capture the star field, so there were NO PIXEL DATA recorded from those areas (shown black). Of course only the spacecraft and the Earth would respond to the contrast level---they were the only images. What do you get when the light intensity per pixel is zero? Black. Comparison to terrestrial images is bogus because there is always some low level of light scattering in the atmosphere, even though it may look "black" in an image.
This is yet another example of how people who don't understand cameras, light, and photography from the standpoint of physics (not from the standpoint of manipulating cell phone images) fail to understand the image right in front of them. So, the spacecraft is in space. The Earth is round. And the Hoaxers and Flatters are blissfully ignorant of reality. It is absolutely pathetic.
As for the clip about Buzz Aldrin, his remark "It didn't happen" was a denial that there was anything truly scary about his mission. Aldrin flew 66 combat missions in the Korean war and spent 5 hours in an EVA from Gemini 12. He knows the meaning of "scary."
I watched the video, presented by a pretentious narrator. Once again, ignorance reigns supreme. The camera that took the images from space did not have enough dynamic range to capture the star field, so there were NO PIXEL DATA recorded from those areas (shown black). Of course only the spacecraft and the Earth would respond to the contrast level---they were the only images. What do you get when the light intensity per pixel is zero? Black. Comparison to terrestrial images is bogus because there is always some low level of light scattering in the atmosphere, even though it may look "black" in an image.
This is yet another example of how people who don't understand cameras, light, and photography from the standpoint of physics (not from the standpoint of manipulating cell phone images) fail to understand the image right in front of them. So, the spacecraft is in space. The Earth is round. And the Hoaxers and Flatters are blissfully ignorant of reality. It is absolutely pathetic.
As for the clip about Buzz Aldrin, his remark "It didn't happen" was a denial that there was anything truly scary about his mission. Aldrin flew 66 combat missions in the Korean war and spent 5 hours in an EVA from Gemini 12. He knows the meaning of "scary."